About Tania Fox
Tania Fox Tania Fox was born and bred in New York City in whatever year would make her 29 in the year that you are reading this. She moved to Montreal five years ago and since acheiving residency, she's wasted no time in becoming as learned and jaded about politics in Canada as she was in US. Being fully bilingual and a professional translator, she is able to convey her astutely assinine commentary to a broader audience. And does so on a weekly basis in her column What the Fox???
She loves walking in the snow, singing in the shower, Guinness, both of her jobs and people who pronounce her name correctly.
You can send your virtual baskets of fresh or rotten fruit to her at fox@forgethebox.net
June 30th, 2011 | by Tania Fox
Foxy worries that as she gets older, it's not just her looks that she's losing. I used to think it was really funny that old people just let their farts rip while they walk. Gross, but funny. But as I get older I realize that it's rude. Funny, but rude. And it dawned on me, many of these people were responsible for moulding the manners of other people children and these children were taught to suppress their farts or at least to say "excuse me". So does old age give you the right to give up all pretense of socially acceptable behaviour
June 16th, 2011 | by Tania Fox
For all the sayings out there about being sorry, none of them say that sorry makes things better, yet, as children, we are taught to believe it does: You go apologize and make BillyBoBob feel better. And I suppose because that's what we believe, in theory it does. But as adults, "sorry" doesn't always cut the mustard
June 2nd, 2011 | by Tania Fox
am a slob. I have come to terms with the fact that I will always be a slob, in the way that an alcoholic who doesn't drink any more will always be an alcoholic. My name is Foxy, and I am a slob.
I have been known to go weeks, not days, without washing dishes. I have had cats for most of my adult life who, I believe, think they are supermodels, and throw up their food soon after eating it. I have left that on the floor. I have gone months without vacuuming or washing the floors. I have left more hair in the sink and tub than most people have on their heads. I have subscribed to the "if it's yellow leave it mellow, if it's brown flush it down" theory
May 19th, 2011 | by Tania Fox
For me, dating a younger man is a lot like farting in public; there's nothing unnatural about it, but I still think people are looking at me with that stank look of judgement.
Since beginning my 20-something holding pattern, I have noticed that the men I am attracted to and who seem to be attracted to me are younger... much younger
May 12th, 2011 | by Tania Fox
I like my men…um…straight. Not some brutish parody, all git your ass ovah heah, hand raised in a threatening pose, hair poking out the back of his undershirt. But the role of the girl will be played by me, and when I am done the show will close. Honestly, don't ask me what I am thinking, don't bump me out of the mirror and, for god's sake
May 5th, 2011 | by Tania Fox
Little people are scary. Not the "Little People," but miniature versions of adults - babies in tuxedos, spelling bee champions who use the words in context, kids in miniature Lambourghinis pissed about imaginary traffic jams. There is certainly something to be said about precocious and intelligent children, and everyone wants to relate to their kids, but making them into adults is not just creepy, it's wrong. Like "Claudia" in Interview With The Vampire
April 28th, 2011 | by Tania Fox
When I was about 5, my mom knitted me a beautiful white fisherman's sweater that I wore with pride right into a mud puddle.I was devastated. My mom tried to console me by taking me to the park to ride the "big kids" slide. I was too small to ride alone so she found a kid who would take me and I said
April 25th, 2011 | by Tania Fox
People tend to look at me funny - a look somewhere between pity and caught back laughter - when I tell them that I don't have a driver's license
March 31st, 2011 | by Tania Fox
Neil Young said "it's better to burn out than fade away", clearly what was true for him in his thirties isn't so much so in his 60s. He has quietly continued to consistently produce great music for some 40 years (and no one wants to see him shake his lice-ridden money maker anyway). Tom Waits hasn't attempted collaborations with 50 Cent to keep his image youthful. Conversely, the Rolling Stones, who don't realize that just because one of them is already embalmed doesn't mean the rest are
March 24th, 2011 | by Tania Fox
"Just be honest". While everybody says it, nobody really means it all the time. While honesty is always the best policy, it's not always the most sensitive policy. So we lie - to get out of trouble, to avoid hurting someone's feelings, to make ourselves feel better. And we all support these lies. When a girl asks
March 17th, 2011 | by Tania Fox
I have, thus far, very much enjoyed the privacy of my own home. I am single, without roommates and the cat and I co-exist with - in a "you don't pay/you don't say" kinda way. This affords me the freedom to walk around in various states of un-shaven, un-coiffed, un-bathed, un-done un-glory with no-one to see it. Or rather, it did. I remember watching The Jetsons thinking, "How cool is that"
March 10th, 2011 | by Tania Fox
The radio only speaks directly to two kinds of people- the insane and the insanely heartbroken. When one is the latter, it seems that every song has been hand picked by the DJ to ensure that your heart remains irreparably broken. With the level of insanity it takes to believe the DJ is conspiring against you, it is not hard to believe that if you drove to the radio station he or she would be sitting there laughing and licking whipped cream off your ex. Then the DJ goes into
March 3rd, 2011 | by Tania Fox
Tonight at The Wheel Club, get a no-gym $5 workout! Comedians Peter J. Radomski, Walter J.Lyng, Matt O'Neill, and Christopher Betts, The March Mavericks of Merriment, will have you laughing so hard you'll
March 3rd, 2011 | by Tania Fox
Moving to Montreal was a life changing experience for the better. I have discovered so many things here that I might not have, had I stayed in NYC and I have fallen in love with them. The terraces, the fresh bread, biking, the cheese curds (!?!) are all things that, while they may have been available in NY, I never took advantage of
February 24th, 2011 | by Tania Fox
Around Grammy time, I am reminded of two young upstarts who, being moderately attractive but wholly lacking in talent, were ultimately humiliated and ostracised. I'm speaking, of course, of Milli Vanilli. Over 20 years later, they are still regarded as the epitome of raw talentlessness and having been stripped of their Grammys. And over 20 years later, Grammys and the like are still being bestowed upon the attractive and talentless who enter the studio with
February 14th, 2011 | by Tania Fox
Flowers, if given the chance, would leap to their death to escape a worse fate at my hands. But at my house, they are not even given the option of suicide because my cat will eat them and, as if chastising me for breaking the "no flower" rule, he will throw them up in places where I am sure to step in it and curse the person who gave them to me for encouraging the cat
